Y'all,

If you want more marginalized folks to migrate here, please be more willing to share mutual aid asks and links to their shops or newsletters, as their finances often depend on it. Twitter gave them a chance to promote it, and for disabled folks in particular, we often rely on mutual aid support.

State governments are often horrifically draconian and oppressive for us, where the services that are offered to us are lacking and often useless. Disabled folks do not get enough disability benefits for survival. If you want to make it more welcoming for us, then be willing to aid us in mutual aid work.

But instead of aid, I've seen folks here be actively hostile to sharing or posting ANY requests for mutual aid or links to shops. Some report it thus causing more harm. This "no promotion" attitude is a really privileged and harmful take.

More folks would migrate IF they can safely rebuild what they're losing from Twitter. Demanding purity tests and not accounting for the complex nuances of those still on Twitter isn't helping. We need to build a more nuanced and accepting environment for those that rely on mutual aid for survival.

Community building isn't only talking and sharing stories. It's also building resources and spaces for folks to find and get what they need to thrive. This includes monetary support as well as building up sharing libraries. Let's build that here too, ok?

#mastodon #TwitterMigration #disabled @disabilityjustice #MutualAid #welcoming

There is no question - NO QUESTION - that nurses deserve better pay, better working conditions and far more respect from government, for the life saving work they do.

I fully support the nurses strike.

#BananaOfTheDay

The banana is bruised. No ink is used.

The fact that the federal minimum wage has stagnated at $7.25/hour since 2009 is atrocious.

But in reality, it's actually far worse than that.

The federal minimum wage is worth 28% less today than it was worth in 2009.

It’s worth 41% less than in 1968.

An absolute disgrace.

Once more for the cheap seats - there are no "woke schools."

American society and culture have changed and are changing. Demographics shift. Ideas are explored and new perspectives are constantly emerging.

People ostensibly worried about "wokeness" being taught in school are really just concerned that their kids will one day discern that the garbage worldview that they had been fed while growing up is just that - garbage.

#woke #wokeness

I'd rather my child spend the day with RuPaul than Rand Paul.

Long live drag!